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If you go down to the woods today in The Company of Wolves, you're sure of a big surprise! Little Red Riding Hood and Werewolf legends abound in this film bathed in explicit sexual imagery. Enter a magical, mysterious world where little girls should beware of men whose eyebrows meet in the middle and where men transform .. Read more

Starring Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea
Director Neil Jordan
Genres Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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The Company Of Wolves

If you go down to the woods today in The Company of Wolves, you're sure of a big surprise! Little Red Riding Hood and Werewolf legends abound in this film bathed in explicit sexual imagery. Enter a magical, mysterious world where little girls should beware of men whose eyebrows meet in the middle and where men transform nightmarishly into wolves...Director Neil Jordan, who adapted Angela Carter's short story for the screen, takes us deep into a macabre fairy tale, developing the rich and lurid dreams of Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson - in her debut film role), an adolescent girl in a world where legends of wonder and fear woven by her Grandmother (Angela Lansbury), becomes reality. It dovetails the sensual, grotesque and magical with the folklore of witches and wolves, but Rosaleen is determined to confront and dispel the myths which assail her.

Starring Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea, Tusse Silberg, Micha Bergese, Graham Crowden, Brian Glover, Kathryn Pogson
Director Neil Jordan
Studio ITV DVD
Run time DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language English
Released DVD: 17 Oct 2005
Blu-ray: 15 Oct 2007
Production year: 1984
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Dark variations on the Little Red Riding Hood theme are adeptly explored by Crying Game director Neil Jordan, co-writing with Angela Carter, in this arresting visual treat that at times resembles a pretentious Hammer horror. Dreams within dreams build up a psychological fright mosaic, as young Sarah Patterson goes through the broadest spectrum of emotions generally known as adolescence. Angela Lansbury is in super-eccentric form as an archetypal granny ready with “Once upon a time” werewolf fairy tales. Overall, a fine exercise in art design, lyrical mood and sinister allegory.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 2 stars out of 4

    Fragmentary adult fantasy which had an unexpected box-office success, chiefly because of its sexual allusiveness, its clever make-up and its pictorial qualities.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 19 out of 21 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    The best films are hairy on the inside...

    Ahh, lashings of sexual allegory - I love it! Saucy symbolism abounds in this highly enjoyable adaption of feminist writer Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber.' Imagine nursery rhymes and folklore stripped of their innocence and revealed in all their libidinous adolescent glory. Women as sultry witches, men as tortured werewolves, with lots of sex and death all the way! However, it does contain more subtle messages, such as man's externalisation of the 'beast within' through religion. For example, when the strongly Christian grandmother is confronted with a werewolf, she tells him to go back to Hell. In a telling moment he replies 'I didn't come from Hell, I came from the forest.' Give it a go, its deeper than you think.

      • Darth Egregious from London
      • Posted 25 Nov 2005 01:01

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    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Fairy tales horro

    This is for fans of fariy tales and Labyrinth.

      • brokenking from Bristol
      • Posted 18 Mar 2008 21:29

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